Sometimes you have to be punished in order to learn. This is one of those times.

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Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:23:37 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=227978#comment-2182916If someone wants to cut off both my arms, and I don’t want them to cut off any….

…I certainly don’t compromise and let them cut off one.

Hold firm, Republicans. Shut down the government – that’s certainly a way to cut spending. Not the best way but an effective way.

We’ve been hearing about “the Bush tax cuts” for 10 years. Let Barack Obama be the man who repealed the Bush tax cuts. Let the economy be the result of Barack Obama’s policies, not “partisan bickering” and “Republican refusal.”

HitNRun on November 9, 2012 at 4:56 PM

Precisely..we have been and will be blamed as long as WE are the focus…

I used to think this would work. Then Obama got re-elected on economic statistics that would have had a Republican flayed alive and dragged across the salt flats behind wild horses.

Half of those in the exit polls still blamed Bush for our current economy.

That’s true. But the other side of that is that, as bad as the economy has been, we’ve been exaggerating comparing it to the Carter years.

The best thing at this point is to remove the ambiguity. Let what happens happens, and let Obama have what he wants on any field that we can easily repeal later. Do I really want to watch Boehner blubber and flop and reel for six or twelve months before he probably caves anyway? Do we really need to hear the nightly blasting

We stood our ground in 2011 and refused to accept tax hikes because we assumed, quite reasonably, that help was on the way. We know now that that’s not the case. Help is not on the way. It won’t be coming until more of the public sees that the result of liberal economics. Nobody under 40 remembers the 1970s. We need to actually see it, not scroll past a link that an old fart relative posted on Facebook about something Rush Limbaugh said.

We’ve been hearing about “the Bush tax cuts” for 10 years. Let Barack Obama be the man who repealed the Bush tax cuts. Let the economy be the result of Barack Obama’s policies, not “partisan bickering” and “Republican refusal.”

The point of “holding the nation hostage” (give me a break) is that the climbing debt and reckless spending is a bigger problem than the short-term problem of “how much do we borrow this year, while rendering the very idea of a debt ceiling meaningless by extending it indefinitely”.

Republicans – or more accurately, fiscal conservatives, will shrug at this calling of the bluff because they consider it the lesser of two evils. And they’re right.